Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Reading the tweets and news stories condemning Paula for not disclosing her diabetes sooner, and accusing her of doing so for personal gain, I’m reminded of the old American Indian Proverb: Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile [...]
As a pediatrician, I strive to stay true to my training and defer to other experts for areas I am not well versed in or need additional input. If a parent asked me about the safety of apple juice, for [...]
My family has a tradition of getting all our back-to-school shopping completed just before our big end of the summer vacation. Lunch boxes used to be big ticket back to school items but since my girls are teens now, this ritual is, as Hillary Duff once sang, “so yesterday”!
Got milk? Most refrigerators do, but most kids’ bodies don’t. The solution? Flavoring the milk!
I opened a fortune cookie the other day, expecting it to say something relatively nonsensical or meaningless, only to have it read:
“Money is not everything. You can buy a doctor but not heath.”
This fortune tells the story of more people than most of us can count, including most of us at times. All too often we fall into trap of thinking that the more we spend on health the healthier we will become. Not true
Show #5 Companion Page: Hot Off The Presses Every month, we hear on the news and read online and in our daily newspapers (if you still have one in print where you live!) about the studies that impact our family’s [...]
Staying healthy this time of year is an enormous challenge. Our daily routine of healthy eating and exercise quickly gets replaces with food to go, treats, and parties gallore. And, let’s be brutally honest with each other, exercise gets either [...]
Getting kids to drink milk past the infancy period is the bane of many parents existance. Between true milk allergies, milk intolerance and kids who just don’t like milk it becomes a true uphill battle to get enough milk into [...]
Do you know what one of the first books I received as a child was? A cookbook. My grandmothers loved to cook. My fondest memories of my childhood were of both my grandmothers in the kitchen cooking. Two of my [...]
With a new school year up on and the nice weather still around, now is the time for parents to take a moment to really look at their kids and be very realistic about their weights. Now isn’t the time [...]
